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Laredos with Gold Trim???
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:08 pm
by jack1953
I'm not even going to comment on the asking price, but rather I did not know that they made the Laredo with gold trim im 1995, or is this a typo?
http://cgi.ebay.com/SUPERB-1995-RICKENB ... 3366ea7964
Re: Laredos with Gold Trim???
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:28 pm
by bosco64
The seller looks like he replaced the chrome hardware with gold hardware, plus he has a white TRC...
Re: Laredos with Gold Trim???
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:37 pm
by johnallg
Actually, from the quality of the flamed maple, I'd say it is mis-identified and is really a Cheyenne II. Laredo basses don't have the flame.
Re: Laredos with Gold Trim???
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:42 pm
by bosco64
Yeah, but a '95 Laredo would surely have a maple fingerboard, and I don't see the walnut sandwich. But if there's one thing for certain about Rickenbackers, is that anything's possible!
Re: Laredos with Gold Trim???
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:02 pm
by bassduke49
The Cheyenne II didn't come along until 2000 (maybe late 1999), and all but for a developmental one at the RIC museum have bubinga fretboards. This is clearly a Laredo with the hardware swapped out. I suppose it's possible that a special customer or a special dealer ordered it with gold hardware, but more likely an owner found a Cheyenne owner who preferred chrome and simply swapped straight across. I've done it.
Re: Laredos with Gold Trim???
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:51 pm
by manta
It says it is a Larado. So evidently a new model and it must come with gold Larado trim.
Manta